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What's good y'all? You're listening to Coast Switch. I'm Gene Demby, and today, on the show,

we're talking about the turning of the seasons.

I have always been a summer girl, born and raised in California.

I love the heat. I love swimming pools and popsicles and long nights.

And I think, for the first time in my life, I am becoming a fall person.

That voice that we're all hearing right now belongs to.

Adalimone, and I am a poet.

So Ada is being modest because she's actually America's poet.

She's the poet laureate of the United States, the first Latina ever so named.

But we're going to come back to all that promise anyway.

Ada told me that she's in a new different season in her life right now.

I'm always someone who likes a lot of light.

And that's what I love about the summer.

Give me all the hours. Give me all the hours.

And you know, I had a lot of loss this summer.

My father-in-law passed away who I write about quite a bit.

And so I've never thought of it this way.

But the darkness that fall brings feels maybe like a healing dark,

like a chance to go inward and reflect and to grieve and to cherish.

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